So for years I shopped and cooked for a family of nine. To say that the adjustment from buying and cooking for so many to just myself when I moved out of my parents’ home was a bit rough is an understatement. ;) I had been programmed and trained for so long to think bulk, sales and quadrupling recipes that to change gear has/is taking me four plus years!
Lately, I’ve fallen in love with the shopping hand basket. Running in to pick up only what I can fit in a basket saves me money and is a trick to help me be more thoughtful about grocery shopping. I have lists…so this is a great method to keep me in check and not buy for a family of four when I’m just one gal. :)
Tonight’s shopping for the week:
3 pomegranates
1 bag fresh spinach leaves
1 bottle sparkling grape juice
3 green bananas
1 pgk. raspberries
6 grapefruits
1 gallon skim milk
1 cont. low fat cottage cheese
1 fresh cut mango, strawberries and blueberries mixed fruit cup
I’ve been sad because Kifir has stopped being sold in any of the stores I frequent. I have a huge craving for it…I need to find another supplier.
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Watching “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” tonight unabashedly. It signifies all that I loved about Christmas – Mom making sugar cookies and we young children decorating them, Dad coming home after a long workday and we greeting him excitedly with kisses at the door, a warm, homecooked family meal, and the classic Christmas movies – all treats for us kids since Mom and Dad rarely let us watch television or movies on a normal basis.
There’s something so amazingly beautiful about the simplicity and innocence of this classic. It has its philosophical questionable frameworks but however ethnocentric and patriarchal it might be, it’s pure-hearted and has a lovely message. I’ll take the good and enjoying reliving my childhood, even if only for a night.
Everything I buy at the grocery store has to be carried on the bus and then carted uphill to the great detriment of my shoulders– so I use those little handbaskets to keep me aware of how much weight I’m setting myself up to carry!
That’s horrible! I think I’d go stark raving mad without a steady supply of kifir.
@ Jonolan,
I’m close to going stark raving mad. :) I keep searching for it. Over the holidays when I have more time to visit more specialty stores, I’ll track it down. I’m craving it like mad. :)
@ Lisa – you must be so tone now! :) In theory I love that idea – only buying what you can carry. In practice, I know it has to be a pain to lug anything you purchase up a hill at the end of a long day.
When are you coming “home”? I’d like to see you.
If worse comes to worse, you could always make it yourself. Kifir isn’t hard to make and kifir grains can be purchased easily through online sources.
That is assuming I have time to be the homemaker type, which alas, is not the case right now. Probably won’t be until/if I get married and cut back on hours a bit (working a 40 hour work week would be phenomenal – it’d feel like a vacation, haha) or get pregnant and thus have to cut back eventually, too. Then, my kitchen had better watch out!
I used to make yogurt but it’s been a long time; I imagine the process is similar but perhaps not.
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